At this point, Bud Selig, who was in attendance, declared the game a tie, promising that it would never happen again and somehow that the game would be made more meaningful next year. After getting some help from the starting lineups, you must then keep official score of the game to determine which Dodger was being honored at the event.

(Note: There are many possible ways to keep score. For best results, use exactly the notation shown on only this page: http://www.baseballscorecard.com/examples.htm. Do not include any scoring notation methods that do not appear on that page, and be sure to include the notation methods that do appear on that page. The only exception is that the strikeout examples on that page do not show the associated out number for some reason -- for the purposes of this puzzle, they should.)

Puzzle Rules: The answer to the puzzle is the name of a current Dodger. Comment freely in the thread, but if you have the solution, please don't give it away to everyone in the comments section. Instead, do the following:

Email us with the first and last name of the answer, as well as your reasoning. And please include your screen name somewhere in the email; and

Post a comment simply saying you have emailed your solution attempt. I may not be able to reply to your original email promptly, so please be patient and check back on the comment thread for the latest news; I may confirm correct answers there.

Keep your eye on both the comments section for possible hints from UBragg as well as the post for possible hints from me.

You have until midnight PT tonight to submit your answer. Good luck!

Hint #1 (8:54am): There are four distinct steps to solving it. The first step involves the players' names. And if you get the first step correctly, you will know you did.

just checking in to get a feel for where people are... anyone besides J Steve figure out the first step? anyone besides quad finish scoring? anyone making progress beyond that? anyone made a voodoo doll of me and started sticking it with pins? (technically that last one is not part of the puzzle...)

Ubragg, I think I'm on to the fourth step. Got the scoring. Got what we're supposed to get out of the scoring, via the hint. Got what becomes of that. But that fourth step is the hardest one. Can't tell what's what in that last step.

J Steve (or anybody else for that matter), if you send in the details of your work, I'm happy to provide data confirmation to see if anything is not quite right. (EK will do it, or forward it along to me to do it.) You do have to get the scoring exactly right, using the notation from the page I linked to, for it to make any sense.

Keven C, sounds like you are on the home stretch, great work!! It sounds like you have gotten the message from step 3. How long have you been stuck there?

HINT #3: The message you get in Step 3 and the message you get in Step 4 are both the same number of letters long. (This should help those trying to determine exactly how to interpret the message from Step 3, since there are potentially a few ways to interpret it.)

Thanks Drewdez and J Steve, I appreciate the kind words. And of course, great job working it out to both of you.

fanerman, no worries if you just want to read the solution tomorrow, I admit that it does take a while to work through, but I think you would find it satisfying if you took the time. I'll be around until midnight if you want to try later and are still looking for new hints. I'm expecting a late entry from BWrightson after he finishes work.

I completed a score sheet and i'm staring at it. I think i'm familiar with the first names...while i'm at it, is it Wilson Alvarez?. Because it is, you managed to include my all time favorite pitchers.